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Thinker · 12 quotes
12 sourced quotes by Kofi Annan on peace, non-violence & conflict, environment & sustainability, integrity & honesty, governance & administration, democracy & freedom, with a use case for each in GS4, Essay and interviews.
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We don’t need any more promises. We need to start keeping the promises we already made.
It is only through multilateral institutions that States can hold each other to account. And that makes it very important to organize those institutions in a fair and democratic way, giving the poor and the weak some influence over the actions of the rich and the strong.
If one is going to err, one should err on the side of liberty and freedom.
When women thrive, all of society benefits and succeeding generations are given a better start in life.
The international community . . . allows nearly 3 billion people—almost half of all humanity—to subsist on $2 or less a day in a world of unprecedented wealth.
The world is not ours to keep. We hold it in trust for future generations.
We need to create a world that is equitable, that is stable and a world where we bear in mind the needs of others, and not only what we need immediately. We are all in the same boat.
In today’s world, the security of every one of us is linked to that of everyone else.
You can do a lot with diplomacy, but with diplomacy backed up by force you can get a lot more done.
Unless the Security Council is restored to its pre-eminent position as the sole source of legitimacy on the use of force, we are on a dangerous path to anarchy.
More than ever before in human history, we share a common destiny. We can master it only if we face it together. And that, my friends, is why we have the United Nations.
We may have different religions, different languages, different colored skin, but we all belong to one human race.